French
French

Go back

Bright-er Side: Navigating the maze of Burnaby Mountain

OpinionsBright-er Side
Peak Web
Peak Web
1 min.
0
1238
PHOTO: Jin Song / The Peak

By: Jin Song, Peak Associate

My first experience of SFU’s Burnaby campus was struggling to find TASC 9204 for an absurd amount of time. Even with the help of Google Maps, SFU Snap, the campus maps, and strangers (none of whom actually knew where the room was), first-year me decided that SFU was, indeed, a maze. 

Three years later, I still get lost . . . which is actually really exciting.

Maybe it’s not so fun when midterms are in two minutes, but when I’m not in a rush, stumbling upon unexplored parts of campus brings much-needed novelty to my day. It brings back memories of being a kid and having nothing better to do than explore. The Burnaby campus gets made fun of for looking like a prison, with the brutalist cement and whatnot, but I think it’s really grown on me. It looks like the backdrop of a science fiction epic, and it’s no surprise that tons of films and TV shows have used campus as a set.

There’s a bunch of science on why our brains are wired to love novelty, but I think it can be summed up like this: exploring mazes is fun.

Was this article helpful?
0
0

Leave a Reply

Block title

The AI gender gap should not be mischaracterized as a skill issue

Opinions Peak Web -
By: Heidi Kwok, Staff Writer “Raise your hand if you use AI regularly in some capacity.” The atmosphere in the classroom instantly tensed — was this seemingly harmless question actually a trap set out by our professor to weed out the academic non-believers? After what felt like minutes, several hands reluctantly shot up. Alarmingly, most of them were from the students who identified as men. Thankfully, the impromptu questionnaire did not lead to a bunch of failing grades and the lecture went forward as usual.  However, it underscored a more pressing issue with artificial intelligence (AI) use: research shows that men are more likely to adopt generative AI tools such as ChatGPT in professional settings than women. This staggering imbalance contributes to the pre-existent workplace gender...

Read Next

Block title

The AI gender gap should not be mischaracterized as a skill issue

Opinions Peak Web -
By: Heidi Kwok, Staff Writer “Raise your hand if you use AI regularly in some capacity.” The atmosphere in the classroom instantly tensed — was this seemingly harmless question actually a trap set out by our professor to weed out the academic non-believers? After what felt like minutes, several hands reluctantly shot up. Alarmingly, most of them were from the students who identified as men. Thankfully, the impromptu questionnaire did not lead to a bunch of failing grades and the lecture went forward as usual.  However, it underscored a more pressing issue with artificial intelligence (AI) use: research shows that men are more likely to adopt generative AI tools such as ChatGPT in professional settings than women. This staggering imbalance contributes to the pre-existent workplace gender...

Block title

The AI gender gap should not be mischaracterized as a skill issue

Opinions Peak Web -
By: Heidi Kwok, Staff Writer “Raise your hand if you use AI regularly in some capacity.” The atmosphere in the classroom instantly tensed — was this seemingly harmless question actually a trap set out by our professor to weed out the academic non-believers? After what felt like minutes, several hands reluctantly shot up. Alarmingly, most of them were from the students who identified as men. Thankfully, the impromptu questionnaire did not lead to a bunch of failing grades and the lecture went forward as usual.  However, it underscored a more pressing issue with artificial intelligence (AI) use: research shows that men are more likely to adopt generative AI tools such as ChatGPT in professional settings than women. This staggering imbalance contributes to the pre-existent workplace gender...

Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.

Contact us: [email protected]

© The Peak Publications Society 1965-2024

Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.

Contact us:
[email protected]

© The Peak Publications Society 1965-2024